White Oak News Vacation Tales and Local Notes
White Oak residents report vacations and visits across multiple states. Francis Brew family vacationing in New Orleans with Donna Lee visiting relatives in Luling. Cindy Mabe and Bonnie Ingram enjoyed Atlanta with Joe South encounter. Hugh Warren family vacationing in Cimarron Mountains with Philmont trek and camps. Homer Blue ill in Tyler. Alaska visit by Rex and Ronnie Lewis with Anchorage trip planned. Ice cream supper at White Oak Missionary Baptist Church. Wolf bite incident on Jack Eudy. Fourth of July at Lake Quitman. Local volunteer help at concession stands and Gulf Shores trip memories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Louisiana
Francis Brew
Cherie
Kelly
Donna Lee
Cimmaron Mountains
Philmont National
Cimaron
New Mexico
Marty
Kelsie
Lillie B
Ingram
Bob Lewis
Rex
Ronnie
Anchorage
Alaska
White Oak Missionary Baptist Church
Jack Dymke
Buck II
Jan
Terri
Tina
Lake O’ the Pines
R. C. Echols
Baton Rouge
Buck Smith
Kilgore
James Davis
Kildare
Texas
Jack Eudy
Wayne Coffey
Lake Quitman
Parcel Post Weights and Sizes Policy Update
The parcel post weight limit increases to 40 pounds for shipments between first class post offices and for local zones. Larger city shipments between post offices in zones three to eight rise to 40 pounds, with size limits on first class routes at 78 by 84 inches by July 1971. Public Law 89-593 authorizes these increases and details apply to Alaska and Hawaii notes. Also notes on community activities and obituaries appear.
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J. H. Parris
Parrish
Bad News For Car Owners
State Insurance Board proposals would raise car owners insurance rates by 11.4 percent effective September 1. Increases include 17.5 percent for physical damage 24.9 percent for comprehensive and 5.5 percent for liability as district level differences vary. The board cites higher labor and auto parts costs storm damage losses and rising thefts as reasons. The plan does not include next year rate cuts and should be set around August.
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State Insurance Board
Million Candy Bars Each Day at Sulphur Springs Plant
Consolidated Foods Corporation Hollywood Brands Division plans to run one million candy bars daily on its No 1 line in Sulphur Springs Monday while installing No 2 line equipment from Holland. Dutch engineers install nougat centering machinery amid strong demand for nougat based bars. Aiming for March 1 operation of the third line, with each line built to produce a million bars in a 16 hour day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Consolidated Foods Corporation
Hollywood Brands
Holland
C. D. Ward
Patrice Munsel Returns as Can-Can Star in Dallas
Dallas audiences welcome Patrice Munsel in the Can-Can headliner role at Dallas Summer Musicals July 8 to 20. The veteran performer brings Porter Burrows wit and can-can dance to a Paris cabaret plot with Robert Goss as the stern judge and a counterpoint tale of art and romance.
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Patrice Munsel
la Mome Pistache
Miss Munsel
Robert Goss
Suzanne Rogers
David Rae Smith
William L. Massena
Stan Zareff
Ted Farlow
Charles Herrick
Tony de Vicchi
Dallas
Kate
Nellie Forbush
South Pacific
Patrice Muusel
Porter
Paris
Munsel
Metropolitan Opera
Opera Company
Oldest Governor’s Mansion Flies U S Flag in San Juan
The residence of Puerto Rico’s governor in San Juan is noted as the oldest governor’s mansion still flying the United States flag, highlighting historic ties and ceremonial symbolism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Puerto Rico
San Juan
Area Men Serve Aboard USS Enterprise and Navy Vets
Area servicemen are named in Navy updates from Vietnam and shipboard training. Luther T. Polk of Hawkins and Betty J. Walker marry and reside in Florida while Polk serves as aviation support equipment technician aboard USS Enterprise, returning to Alameda after a fourth Vietnam combat tour and preparing for overhaul in Virginia. Freddy D. Purvis of Longview serves at NSA Danang with logistics for 190,000 Free World Forces in I Corps. Charles R. Williams of Longview serves aboard USS New Jersey during Pacific Midshipmen Training Squadron 69 exercises off Southern California, with San Francisco and other ports ahead. Tommy L. Raney of Longview earns promotion to Private First Class after recruit depot graduation in San Diego and proceeds to Camp Pendleton for infantry and MOS training.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
USS Enterprise
Luther T. Polk
USN
Susie Polk
Hawkins
Betty J. Walker
Jacksonville
Fla
Alameda
Calif
Vietnam
Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Virginia
U.S
Freddy D. Purvis
Oscar H. Purvis
Longview
Marie T. Torrie
San Diego
U.S. Naval Support Activity
NSA
Danang
Navy
I Corps
Uss New Jersey
Charles R. Williams
Curtis D. Williams
USS
New Jersey
California
U.S. Naval Academy
San Francisco
Tacoma
Wash
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Seventh Fleet
SAN Diego-Marine
Tommy L. Raney
Thurman L. Raney
Marine Corps Recruit Depot
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White Oak News
By Dorinda Deroven
Elbert Wyatt
Sherry Dykes
Hugh Warren
Sherry
Mike
Alexandria
Bill Adkinson
Cindy
Ricky
Ramona
Gulf Shores
Alabama
Florida
Pensacola Beach
Goss
of the Pines
Bertrella Sapp O’guinn
United States Army
Southern Methodist University
John Griffin
Chuck Silvertooth
Rhonda Steele
Sherry Dickson
Pam Raborn
Bob Peery
W. L. Owens
Houston
Ronald Best
Aaron Best
Terrell Canfield
Harold Nelson
Arp
R. L. Gray
White Oak
Dwayne Denton
Ben Taylor
David Lucas
Mike Perry
Kenny Hawthorne
Terry Reynolds
George Cloud
Mark Cloud
Ricky Newsom
Mark Browning
Ronnie Browning
John Kenna
Jensy
Ozona
Arkansas
F. J. Chambliss
Port Arthur
Carl Clemens
Bessemer
Jerry Lucas
Jeffry
Lonnie Lucas
Cape Town
South Africa
Sally Woodrow
The
National Council For Maternal and Family Welfare
Durban
L. Whitman
Pinetown
Arracuda
Barracuda
Valiant
Beavers Motor CO
Longview Highway
Chrysler Motors Corporation
Hightowers
Credit Jewelers
Gladewater, Texas
S. Main
Camp Pendleton, Calif
Friedrich
Ince
Tire and Appliance Store
N. Main-Gladewater
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